Sentences with phrase «language film at»

Rita Moreno presents the award for best foreign language film at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

A Fantastic Woman (Blu - ray) Details: 2017, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, language, sexual content, nudity, a violent assault The lowdown: This Chilean feature, honored as best foreign - language film at the 90th Academy Awards, is a stunning and well - crafted drama about an individual's right to live her life as she sees fit, despite the prejudice and scorn of others.

The original film is up for best foreign language film at this year's Academy Awards.

In 1993, he won the first Palme D'Or for a Chinese language film at Cannes for his epic Farewell, My Concubine (93).

Timbuktu Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Running time: 96 minutes Certificate: PG - 13 Nominated for best foreign language film at the Oscars, this French - Mauritanian drama follows a family who try to avoid the suffering and violence of incoming jihadists.

Last year's Palme d'Or winner was Ruben Ostlund's The Square, which went on to be nominated for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards.

It's favored to win the best foreign language film at the Oscars.

It's not just about getting someone to cover the Spanish - language films at the film festival or about having someone on your staff who knows who Kate del Castillo is, but about realizing that there is a growing population that doesn't see itself merely as a target market but as an engaged audience whose opinion deserves to be in the conversation.

Not exact matches

An Arab - American civil rights organization also asked director Clint Eastwood and actor Bradley Cooper to denounce hateful language directed at U.S. Arabs and Muslims after the release of the film.

A Delta Air Lines employee was captured on video using explicit language toward a customer who was filming him at Portland International Airport.

At its worst, this strategy of translation does to the language of Psalms what colorization does to a fine black and white film, as when «Let your mercy come to me, that I may live» becomes the saccharine «Shower my life with tenderness» (119:77).

According to Kwaku Manu, it is mind - boggling that at a time when countries such as Nigeria, South Africa among others are promoting and championing their local languages through movies, Ghanaians want to be more English than the English, therefore, branding Kumawood films as «uncouthed».

Luis Leiva and Vicent Alabau at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, were inspired by the film Blade Runner, in which characters use a street language called «Cityspeak», a mix of languages including Japanese, Spanish and German.

No, I'll tell you what doesn't help my associating this film with «Pusher»: the fact that it's a thriller that is far from thrilling, and even then, at least this film has the courtesy to bore me in a language that I actually understand.

He also appeared in such films as Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and the bizarrely experimental Esperanto - language horror film Incubus (1963).

After introducing the magical plant of the film's title — a phosphorescent wild berry that blooms just once every seven years — the movie settles into the bucolic lull of its rural surroundings, as Mary (voiced by Ruby Barnhill in the English - language version) unpacks her belongings at her new home, a charming cottage belonging to her Great - Aunt Charlotte (Lynda Baron).

The question of whose disobedience, and what kind of disobedience it is, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, his English language debut, following very quickly on the heels of his film A Fantastic Woman which has been a festival - circuit hit this year.

A few additional distributors did release at least 7 films in the U.S. last year but are not listed because most or all of their films do not have Metascores (these were mainly films in foreign languages).

A few additional distributors did release at least 7 films in the U.S. last year but are not listed because some or all of their films do not have Metascores (these were mainly films in foreign languages).

At least in his English language films he is so devoid of personality and charisma that he stops the picture dead in it's tracks whenever he is on screen.

Despite some genuinely hilarious sequences that, regrettably, are spaced too far apart, this meditation on the things that matter in life is too slow and at times too forced to deserve the high praise it has been getting (including an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film that should have gone to a number of other more worthwhile pictures).

At its worst, the film dangerously repackages the queer experience using language invented by those originally deployed to break it apart.

As the red carpet in South Africa swirled with stunning outfits and exclamations in the local isiXhosa language used in the film's Wakanda kingdom, cast member John Kani laughed at the U.S. president's views, which several African nations have openly scorned.

The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and producer.

When his first English - language film, 2003's Fear X with John Turturro, failed at the box office, Refn's company fell into bankruptcy, forcing him to make two more excellent Pusher films, 2004's Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands and 2005's Pusher III: I'm The Angel Of Death, to climb out of debt.

Thanks to the vagaries of film distribution and the increasing difficulties of small films and foreign language productions to get theatrical releases, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama, which won the Best Director award at Cannes 2008, this one - week Seattle engagement at the Varsity Theatre is the film's American theatrical debut.

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is the first English - language effort from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009 film «Dogtooth» was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

All dialogue in the film is given in sign language without subtitles, a challenging feat that had audiences at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival raving.

On Wednesday night at Cannes, I took the night off from seeing foreign - language films to settle onto the sand for a beachfront screening of Black Panther.

Anderson — who's become even more of an actors» director in his last few films than he was already — is at the peak of his powers here, ironically but appropriately directing «Vice» in such a way that phrases like «peak of his powers» (and other language connoting masculine swagger or preening mastery) seem contrary to the spirit of the thing.

Now opening theatrically in a new cut that runs a leisurely 151 minutes (four minutes shorter than the version that played at Cannes), «The Square,» which will represent Sweden in the upcoming Oscar race for best foreign - language film, may be addressing a broader, less industry - entangled crowd.

Love and Other Drugs Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, pervasive language, and some drug material Available on DVD and Blu - ray This controversial film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway appears on the outset to be a romantic comedy about a drug rep that falls for a patient at one of his doctor's offices.

The India - born, British - raised Radford became a double nominee for Director and Adapted Screenplay on the 1990s Italian film Il Postino (The Postman), the rare foreign language production to earn a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.

Our team — comprised of associates, contributors, editors, graphic artists, web techs, and interns — collaborate on daily content aimed at bringing attention to films made by women — including small «indies» and foreign language films — and thereby celebrating their accomplishments in the entertainment industry.

Hungary has picked harrowing Holocaust drama Son of Saul as its nomination for the 2016 best foreign language film Oscar, less than three weeks after it won the runner - up Grand Prix prize at the Cannes film festival.

Winning the Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival this year, the film is the highly anticipated English language debut of internationally acclaimed Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos and is set for general release in Ireland on 16th October.

This one picked up the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and is on the short list for the best foreign language film Oscar as Switzerland's official submission.

At first I questioned the decision to release the French horror flick, High Tension, in the United States dubbed instead of subtitled, as most foreign language films released here would be.

It's certainly not a family film, but aside from some language and a couple of sequences (not necessarily the orgy itself — which has a surprisingly small amount of nudity) it's the most PG - 13 look at orgy you're likely to see.

In addition, and unlike much English - language film scholarship even today (and certainly television studies), the book is far from Anglophone - or even Francophone - centric in its account of both cinema and criticism / theory's history, being at pains to emphasise the reality of new - century scholarly discourse as truly global in scope.

Arriving the same year American Spike Lee would remake his seminal Oldboy, Park Chan Wook's highly anticipated first English - language feature proved a kind of poetic statement of call - and - response to the tendency for North American cinema to re-make excellent films not just more linguistically palatable, but better while they're at it.

It feels like the most German comedy ever made, but its Oscar and Bafta nominations for best foreign - language film suggest the fears and frailties it needles away at are universal.

French filmmaker Philippe Garrel's Lover For a Day heads to theaters after playing at the New York and Chicago film festivals this fall, while Cohen Media Group is opening Lebanon's The Insult, which is shortlisted in the foreign language category.

Coming off of rave reviews at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Youth is a new Italian dramedy and the second English - language film from director Paolo Sorrentino.

Ford began by poking fun at the technical language Lucas wrote in the scripts, noting how he would need multiple takes during filming.

Bad Moms is one of the more pushy raunchy comedies you'll likely come across, a film so reliant on using vulgarity as a crutch it has characters drop F - bombs at their children's schools and during PTA meetings because without them, the makers of this film feel like they won't get a laugh from audiences prone to guffaw just because they heard harsh language.

most noms for a film that did not make my top ten list: Sicario (10 nominations) which came in at # 13 on my year - end list most noms for a film not nominated for Oscar's Best Picture: Carol (19 nominations) most noms for a film nominated for Oscar's Best Picture: Mad Max Fury Road (16 nominations) most noms for a film I was lukewarm on: Straight Outta Compton (4 nominations) most noms for a film I didn't like at all really: The Revenant (2 nominations) most noms for a film that received ZERO Oscar attention: Spy (7 nominations) most noms for a film that received only 1 Oscar nomination: Creed (6 nominations) most noms for a foreign language film: Phoenix (2 nominations)... hmm.

I reviewed the English language versions of each film, in my first viewing of the films since Anchor Bay first released them to VHS at the end of the nineties.

Here's a fantastic look at the first English language film from directing genius Park Chan Wook.

In his own words, Farrell enjoys «a good natter», and chatted to Flickering Myth's Freda Cooper at the London Film Festival about the stylised language in The Killing Of A Sacred Deer and his reaction to the film's script when he first read it.